To:LYUBOV AXELROD

Published:First published in 1929 inLenin Miscellany XI.

      Sent from London to Berne.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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Receivedthe material from the Rostov comrades (or rather it is still
only a semblance of material!) and a letter from three of them. Too late
for No. 31. And if you want my opinion, it ought not to be published: there
is something not quite right about three men who have fled abroad
proclaiming their
solidarity![1]

Whyshouldn’t they write to Rostov-on-Don instead, so that theDon
Committee(which knows them after all andtrusts them of course) should
1) send in a statement of solidarity and
2)officiallyask us to publish a pamphlet on Rostov? Wouldn’t it
be better to wait a while for a statement ofthat kindthan to
print a private letter?

Orperhaps the addresses in Rostov don’t function? If they do not, let
them give detailed instructions and we shall try to send someone to restore
contact.

Bestregards,Yours,Lenin

[1]Thethree Rostov comradeswere I. I. Stavsky, Mochalov and
Z. Mikhailov.IskraNo. 35 of March 1, 1903, carried a letter from
the Don Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. announcing its solidarity withIskraandZaryaon all questions relating to programme,
tactics and organisation.